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Gen. Lyautey on the "most monumental folly" of WWI

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Jul 31, 2012, 10:43:31 PM7/31/12
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About 10 years ago, I posted that the timeline at

http://cnparm.home.texas.net/Wars/JulyCrisis/JulyCrisis03.htm

under Monday 27 July 1914, contains the following about Marshal Louis
Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, the Resident General in the French
protectorate of Morocco:
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The French command in Morocco is ordered to evacuate the interior and
send most of its troops to France - French Resident-General Lyautey
comments "A war among Europeans is a civil war. It is the most
monumental folly the world has ever committed."

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And I asked if this quotation appears in any book?

I have now done a Google search, which has revealed that this
quotation appears on page 98 of http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Days-George-Malcolm-Thomson/dp/B004HUF02W/
(1964 Edition) and may also appear in the 1975 edition
http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Days-24th-July-August/dp/B0016ZF9IQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1343771862
;

and on
http://books.google.com/books?id=utAhAQAAIAAJ&q=Lyautey+monumental+folly&dq=Lyautey+monumental+folly&source=bl&ots=KFTwH1RevY&sig=QosId9AWTEdzOI1Bfpw9OeZ0Gjk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wD0YUOnvC8re0QGh5YE4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg
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